Infidelity and Trust Repair Couples Counselling in Vancouver
Support for couples navigating the impact of cheating, emotional affairs, or other breaches of trust. Counselling offers a structured space to process what happened, understand next steps, and decide how to move forward with clarity.
Understanding Infidelity and Trust Ruptures
Infidelity can take many forms, including sexual affairs, emotional affairs, secrecy, or repeated boundary violations. Regardless of the details, a breach of trust often comes as a shock and can deeply destabilize the relationship.
Partners may experience intense emotions such as anger, grief, confusion, or numbness. The sense of safety that once existed may feel suddenly gone. Trust repair work does not minimize what happened or rush forgiveness. Instead, it creates space to understand the impact of the betrayal and to assess, carefully and honestly, what repair might look like.
Common Focus Areas in Infidelity and Trust Repair
Understanding What Happened: Exploring the context and choices that led to the breach of trust without excusing or justifying harmful behaviour.
Processing Emotional Impact: Supporting both partners in working through anger, grief, shock, and betrayal in ways that reduce harm and escalation.
Rebuilding Safety and Transparency: If both partners choose to continue the relationship, therapy can support the slow rebuilding of safety through honesty, accountability, and clearer boundaries.
Assessing the Path Forward: Helping couples clarify whether reconciliation feels possible, desired, or healthy, without pressure to stay together.
Managing Ongoing Triggers: Developing ways to respond to reminders, suspicion, or emotional flooding as trust is repaired or decisions are made.
How We Can Help: Our Approach to Trust Repair
Structured and Intentional Work
Infidelity counselling is often more structured than other couples work. Sessions are guided carefully to ensure safety, containment, and clarity, especially during early stages when emotions are most intense.
Separating Responsibility from Understanding
We support couples in understanding what happened while maintaining clear responsibility for the breach of trust. Understanding is not the same as excusing, and accountability remains central to this work.
Supporting Honest Decision-Making
Not every couple chooses to stay together, and not every relationship can or should be repaired. Counselling supports thoughtful decision-making based on values, safety, and long-term well-being rather than pressure or fear.
Counselling Fees & Accessibility
We believe everyone should have access to relationship and intimacy support. We offer two pathways for couples counselling to ensure financial barriers do not stand in the way of care.
Low-cost counselling ($75 – $110 / session)
Work with our skilled practicum student counsellors. These therapists are in the final stages of their graduate training and are closely supervised by highly experienced therapists. Rates are sliding-scale based on your resources.
Full-cost counselling ($185 / session)
Work with our Associate Counsellors. These are fully qualified professionals who have completed their training and bring specialized expertise to the practice.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Infidelity and Trust Repair Counselling
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Yes. Counselling can be helpful soon after an affair, when emotions are most intense. Early support can help contain conflict, slow escalation, and create structure during a very destabilizing time.
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No. Therapy can still be useful even if partners feel unsure or conflicted about reconciliation. Counselling can support clarity, communication, and decision-making without assuming a specific outcome.
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That uncertainty is common after a breach of trust. Therapy can help you explore whether repair feels possible or healthy, without pressure to decide quickly or stay together.
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All clients are offered a free consultation within 48 hours and are usually set up with their first session with a therapist within a week.
